Engineering Faculty and Students to Study Rural Intersection Safety

Author: News Bureau
Posted: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 2:21 PM
Categories: Faculty/Staff | College of Arts and Sciences | Pressroom

Macon, GA


Middle Georgia State College engineering faculty and students will help research the relationship between natural light at different times of day and accidents at rural intersections across the region. Money for the study comes via a $20,000 grant by National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management.

The data gained will be used as guidance for transportation agencies to determine how and when installing lighting at intersections is cost effective. Middle Georgia State's Engineering/Surveying-Geomatics program, part of the Department of Natural Sciences and based on the Cochran Campus, received the grant to work with Georgia Tech on the project. Dr. Roger C. Purcell, associate professor of engineering, will lead Middle Georgia State's efforts.

Purcell and Middle Georgia State students will conduct research at about 60 rural intersections. The research project is titled, "Evaluation of the Cost Effectiveness of Illumination as a Safety Treatment at Rural intersections."

The research will begin in late September and continue through March 2015.

For more information, email Roger Purcell at roger.purcell@mga.edu.